Trump unveils sweeping attack on trans rightsFormer President Trump is promising to radically roll back transgender rights if elected president in 2024.
The big picture: Gender-affirming care would be directly under threat from Trump, who vowed in a video posted to his social network to punish doctors and hospitals who provided the services to trans and nonbinary people.
What he's saying: In the video, Trump says he will push Congress to pass a law to ban gender-affirming care for minors nationwide.
Under his pledge, medical professionals who do provide gender-affirming care to youth would be cut off from Medicare and Medicaid, which serves as a major source of financial support for hospitals and physicians. Teachers or school officials who "suggest to a child that they could be trapped in the wrong body" would face "severe consequences," Trump added. That could take the form of civil rights penalties and loss of federal funds, NBC News reports.
Trump criticized DeSantis taking on Disney over child grooming and child genital mutilation.
It is only recently that Trump has changed to defend children from transition surgery because it polls well with Republicans.
He really doesn’t believe in it.